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The prognostic significance of allelic imbalance at key chromosomal loci in oral cancer.
British journal of cancer - 1 Apr 1999
Partridge M, Emilion G, Pateromichelakis S, A'Hern R, Lee G, Phillips E, Langdon J
Abstract excerpt
Forty-eight primary oral squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) were screened for allelic imbalance (AI) at 3p24-26, 3p21, 3p13, 8p21-23, 9p21, 9q22 and within the Rb, p53 and DCC tumour suppressor genes. AI was detected at all TNM stages with stage 4 tumours showing significantly more aberrations than stage 1-3. A factional allelic loss (FAL) score was calculated for all tumours and a high score was associated with...
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